001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.data.provider.annotation;
017
018import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
019import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
020import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
021import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
022import java.lang.annotation.Target;
023
024/**
025 * Defines the data dictionary attribute 'short label' that provides an alternate shorter label for the property on a
026 * field.
027 *
028 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
029 */
030@Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD })
031@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
032@Documented
033public @interface ShortLabel {
034
035    /**
036     * Gets the short label of the property.
037     *
038     * @return the short label of the property.
039     */
040        String value();
041}